January 24, 2019 | Lenny Says
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There is a deeply-ingrained social stigma attached to menstruation in Myanmar, and young girls and women are taught from an early age that it is dirty and shameful. Women find themselves stigmatized to the point that they are not permitted to touch men (including their husbands) when they are menstruating, and they are often forced outside of their homes. Pulitzer grantee Shaina Shealy was recently on the Lenny Says podcast to share the story of Nandar Gyawalli, a 23-year-old Burmese activist of Nepali descent who uses Facebook to break the cultural taboo surrounding menstruation.
A link to the full podcast can be found here.